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    "id": 865197,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Hon. Tonui has not explained the amendment before us. I want to go on record that the Director of Legal Services in the National Assembly cannot write to me on an amendment by a Member where the amendment was crafted by members of the Directorate of Legal Services. That is an issue I will pick with the Clerk and the Director of Legal Services. Her staff have approved for the amendment to be on the Order Paper. In Parliament, we make laws and learn how to make laws. We are not interested in whether you are a contractor. What Hon. Tonui is doing is not related to contracts. It is in the public procurement and asset disposal sector. Secondly, which entity, both in the private and public sector, will pay you within 30 days? It is impractical. We do not make laws that cannot be implemented. The Vice-Chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is here. The Auditor-General gives the Government management letters, six months in advance for them to provide information and receipts. If they do not provide that information, that is when PAC uses its discretion in Parliament to summon that accounting officer. Hon. Musimba, you are a businessman. You cannot put the 30 days in law. We are supposed to be a very responsible House. Law-making is not about populism. We make laws for posterity. I oppose the amendment even if I will be the only one."
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